, with a River in one Hand, and a City in the other.
Let any one reflect on the Disposition of Mind he finds in himself, at his first Entrance into the
Pantheon
at
Rome
, and how his Imagination is filled with something Great and Amazing; and, at the same time, consider how little, in proportion, he is affected with the Inside of a
Gothick
Cathedral, tho' it be five times larger than the other; which can arise from nothing else, but the Greatness of the Manner in the one, and the Meanness in the other.
I have seen an Observation upon this Subject in a
French